AC9S5U03 Year 5 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

identify sources of light, recognise that light travels in a straight path and describe how shadows are formed and light can be reflected and refracted

Elaborations

• 1 distinguishing between natural (such as glow worms, the sun and stars) and artificial (such as light bulbs or candles) sources of light
• 2 investigating the shadows that are formed when light is completely or partially blocked by an object, such as when using a sundial or shadow puppets
• 3 drawing ray diagrams to show how the path of light from a source reflects off surfaces into the eye
• 4 observing refraction of light using prisms or water droplets and examining the rainbow effect produced
• 5 exploring how 'holograph' videos use the refractive properties of light to create an image that appears to be 3-dimensional
• 6 exploring the use of reflection of light by mirrors such as in periscopes and mirror mazes
• 7 recognising First Nations Australians’ understanding of refraction as experienced in spearfishing and in shimmering body paint, and reflection as evidenced by materials selected for construction of housing

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